Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-15

surveyor, and had held many important town
Offices.
1t came out Tuesday that the assets of the
Central Bank of Toronto. amount to s., ,59l ;,
500. consisting chiefly of notes and bills
ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 or more.
spreading over the entire dominion and ex-
tending into the United States. There is due
the bank by directors 100000. The share
holders win be liable for double the amour,
of their shares.
When Mr.. Edward Marr living in Lewis
ton, returned home Tuesday night, he found
his house locked aud no signs of life around
around it. On entering he found his wife
dead on the floor beside the cradle in which
his child lay asleep Two other children
were at a neighbor's, being unable to get into
the house when they returned from school.
Heart disease is supposed TO be the cause of
Mrs. Marr's sudden death.
One hundred and fifty Russians, Italians
and Greeks, arrived at Greenville, Saturday
last, under written contract made in New
York. giving them one dollar and fifty cents
per day, with the privilege of boarding them
selves. Finding, however, that they had
been basely defranded and deceived by the
contractor, they left Greenville and are
struggling along the road to Bangor, most of
them in pitable condition.
The annual meeting of the Boston i
Maine railroad was held at Lawrence We'd
nesday. lt'was voted to authorize the issue
of terminal bonds as provided by legislative
acts. Ii was also voted To confirm the im-
proyement bonds previously issued on ac-
count of the Eastern railroad lease. The
directors chosen were Geo. c. Lord, Amos
Paul Il Rrultaa I - Ninhnts
Stevens, J. S. Kicker, Richard Olney, S. c..
Lawrence, and Frank Jones.
Last Sunday three negroes assaulted a
Mrs. Oberry and her daughter, living at
Pemberton Ferry, having gained admittance
TO the house by asking for drink of water.
Two of the negroes were caught and tortured
until they confessed. They were then hang
ed fires being built under them As the
flames leaped, the writings of the negroes
were horrible, and several of the men dis
charged volley into the swinging forms,
killing them.
William Lyons, an employe at c. W. Dun
ning's stable, Bath, was arrested Tuesday
evening, for stealing suit of clothes, sill
yer watch, revolver and other articles from
his employer Wednesday afternoon he
was brought before Judge Coombs and plead
SuiitN ne WIS pOutlu over 10 the supreme
Court. which convenes next Tuesday. Most
of the stolen articles were recovered. Ly-
ons has but recently returned from twenty
days confinement in the county Jail at Wis
casset
A party of New York gentlemen, interest
ed in the purchase of Goose Island, Casco
Bay were expected in Portland, Wednesday.
The party, which numbers five or six per-
xxtn nxttx, al. l..,.
out the site of large club house, to be erect
sd early next season 1t is said that num-
ber of workmen will be employed in clearing
ul the ground this winter, Goose Island is
part of the territory of the town of Harps.
well. and lies off to the westward abou,a mile
from Harpswell neck. 1t contains GO or
more acres of land.
The annual meeting of the Eastern Rail
road company was held in Boston Wedncs-
day. There were two tickets in the field for
directors. The regular one bears the names
of the old board, which had majority of the
bondholders, to which some of the stockhold
ers objected Accordingly the other ticket
bears four new names. The following are
upon both tickets: Walter Ilunnewell of
Wellesley, Samuel C. Lawrence of Medford,
Frank Jones of Portsmouth, n. H.. Arthur
Sewall of Bath Me-, and Nathaniel j. Brad
lee of Boston 1t was voted that the stock
holders protest against the course of the
trustees in persistently refusing to invest the
sinking fund moneys in certificates of in
debtedness, and request the directors to take
such measures in the premises as the inter-
es OF all parties concerned may require.
The following was adopted unanimously :
Voted, that the interests of this company re-
quire consolidation of stocks and franchises
between the Boston & Maine and this rail
road and that the directors are requested to
cooperate with the directors of the Boston
& Maine railroad in procuring from the leg
slature the proper enabling legislation.